Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

Investors

SoftBank

Kind
corporate
Rounds
9, led 4
Rounds joined
$172.99B in total size
Appears as
SoftBank, SoftBank Group, SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Camp exposure

LLM scaling
3 rounds, led 1
World models
3 rounds, led 1
Physical AI
3 rounds, led 2

Labs backed

OpenAIGPT lineage through GPT-6 Astra (September 2026), o-series reasoning, agents. Secondary positions in world simulation and robotics.
RunwayVideo generation rebranded as world simulation.
Skild AICross-embodiment 'robot brain'; S1 learns a task from one video (August 2026).
WayveEnd-to-end driving with generative world models.

Rounds

DateLabCampAmountKindValuationRoleSource
Mar 2026OpenAILLM scaling $122Bfunding round $852B post-moneyjoined CNBC, CNBC
Feb 2026WayveWorld models $1.2BSeries D $8.6B post-moneyjoined CNBC, Wayve
Jan 2026Skild AIPhysical AI $1.4BSeries C $14B post-moneyled TechCrunch, Skild AI
Jun 2025Skild AIPhysical AI $135MSeries B $4.5B reportedled Yahoo Finance
Apr 2025RunwayWorld models $308MSeries D $3B post-moneyjoined TechCrunch
Mar 2025OpenAILLM scaling $40Bfunding round $300B post-moneyled CNBC
Oct 2024OpenAILLM scaling $6.6Bfunding round $157B post-moneyjoined TechCrunch
Jul 2024Skild AIPhysical AI $300MSeries A $1.5B post-moneyjoined Skild AI
May 2024WayveWorld models $1.05BSeries C led Wayve